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Conjunction Junction, what really IS your function anyway? Can "but" be a conjunction? Well yes. It is. But it usually has to have a parallel structure - if you don't, it won't sing the rest of the song.


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Okay as writing strippers just two more Here we go

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right to deprive you of the way things are going

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nowadays as plans even unopposed Be smooth but didn't look

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smooth You going finally after two and a half is

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easily enough time to go but also wass figure out

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where that is And last paragraph here they're back in

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the eagle not only was tiny cabin oil pumps and

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bright with warning life that couldn't be dimmed but also

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wass glowing with the intense sunshine outside huh Something sounds

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awkward like it's not referring in the right way here

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So we've probably got a issue and it's not a

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let's Think about this the pair of conjunctions not on

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ly and but also yeah the pair is a correlative

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conjunction correlative conjunctions always come in pairs and they always

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come in the same pair tongue's bleeding here from buddy

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so whenever not only shows up but also will be

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quick to follow however we still need a subject to

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go with the verb wass and the pronoun it works

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perfectly here so the answer is c should say but

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it was also yeah that kind of smooth it out

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Believe it or not let's go through the loser bowl

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here not only but also pear signals a comparison for

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the comparison to work There must be parallel structure in

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each of the sentence parts without the word it which

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we added there in the correct answer There's No parallel

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structure in the comparison falls apart That's the case the

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matter of the word order So get rid of being

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the words and so suggest causation like it's Because of

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this like so this one thing happened in So a

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resulting thing happened and that's not the correct association between

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the descriptions of the cabin So that can't be it

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So what is it See but it was also

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